Quincy Jones – Smackwater Jack, What’s Goin’ On, by Pat Thomas

quincyjones1971: Quincy and heavy friends ‘sing’ Carole King, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, and more. Nearly every jazz and studio musician in NYC and LA played on this – from Freddie Hubbard to Joe Beck to Jimmy Smith to Carole Kaye with Paul Beaver on moog, Toots Thielmans on harp.

Pat Thomas is the author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975.